http://www.901am.com/2009/google-adds-auto-caption-feature-in-youtube.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google-adds-auto-caption-feature-in-youtube New Media News Every Morning Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:12:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.901am.com/2009/google-adds-auto-caption-feature-in-youtube.html/comment-page-1#comment-27855 TechNewsGadget » Automatic captioning makes YouTube videos more accessible Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:33:56 +0000 http://www.901am.com/?p=11899#comment-27855 [...] “We’ve combined Google’s automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions, or auto-caps for short. Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algorithms in Google Voice to automatically generate captions for video. The captions will not always be perfect, but even when they’re off, they can still be helpful—and the technology will continue to improve with time,” Google Software Engineer Ken Harrenstien said in the official Google blog. [...] [...] “We’ve combined Google’s automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions, or auto-caps for short. Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algorithms in Google Voice to automatically generate captions for video. The captions will not always be perfect, but even when they’re off, they can still be helpful—and the technology will continue to improve with time,” Google Software Engineer Ken Harrenstien said in the official Google blog. [...]

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